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" I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible. "
Jonathan Levine
Know
Long
Movies
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" I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Think
Grow
Grow Up
" Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes. "
Jonathan Levine
Proud
Happy
I Wish
" Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Movies
Horror
Horror Movies
" I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there. "
Jonathan Levine
Much
Love
Think
" I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there. "
Jonathan Levine
New York
New
Think
" I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing. "
Jonathan Levine
Always
Trying
Want
" I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good. "
Jonathan Levine
You
See
Good
" My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would let me stay up late. "
Jonathan Levine
Parents
Real
Experience
" As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky. "
Jonathan Levine
Career
Think
Personal
" I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing! "
Jonathan Levine
Good
Doing
Warm
" For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends. "
Jonathan Levine
Family
Value
Mean
" There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a book that people love. "
Jonathan Levine
Love
Set
Book
" I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else. "
Jonathan Levine
Watch
Change
Done
" I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out. "
Jonathan Levine
School
Start
Writing
" Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office. "
Jonathan Levine
Me
Movies
People
" I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know. "
Jonathan Levine
You
Think
Mirror
" I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that? "
Jonathan Levine
Started
Tough
City
" I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go. "
Jonathan Levine
Great
Movies
Think
" I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Run
Vampires
Movies
" I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that. "
Jonathan Levine
Song
Thinking
Music
" I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary. "
Jonathan Levine
Moment
Scary
You
" I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things. "
Jonathan Levine
Horror
Doing
Always
" The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley. "
Jonathan Levine
Coming Home
Music
Building
" There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how I'm feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important. "
Jonathan Levine
Old Friends
Me
Family
" I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience. "
Jonathan Levine
Learning
Work
Myself
" I watched 'Return Of The Living Dead.' That one's cool, man. I like that one. "
Jonathan Levine
Dead
Return
Man
" For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak. "
Jonathan Levine
Me
Look
Speak
" I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. "
Jonathan Levine
Writer
Home
Hal
" I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes. "
Jonathan Levine
Like
Silly
Jokes
" I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever. "
Jonathan Levine
You
Comedy
Want